Japan envoy calls for nuke-free world in meeting with Cairo governor
Oct. 22, 2010
Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor and film director Masaaki Tanabe met with Cairo Gov. Abdel-Azim Wazir on Wednesday as Japan's anti-nuclear special envoy and handed Wazir a personal letter from Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba calling for cooperation to realize a nuclear-free world.
Tanabe, 72, told reporters after meeting with Wazir that he asked the governor to participate in Mayors for Peace, a worldwide grouping of local government leaders.
Wazir accepted the request and expressed his readiness to host a meeting of the group in Cairo, according to Tanabe.
The governor also said that he hopes to build a peace park in Cairo through cooperation between Egypt and Japan, Tanabe said.
During the meeting, Tanabe showed pictures and a documentary film he made using computer graphics that recreates scenes from the city of Hiroshima before it was bombed.
''I lost all my family members'' in the bombing, Tanabe told Wazir.
Tanabe will speak about the tragedy that befell Hiroshima at a Japanese film festival focusing on the atomic bombing, which starts Thursday in Cairo.
Hiroshima was the epicenter of the first atomic bombing in 1945 in which an estimated 140,000 people lost their lives.
(Distributed by Kyodo News on Oct. 21, 2010)
Tanabe, 72, told reporters after meeting with Wazir that he asked the governor to participate in Mayors for Peace, a worldwide grouping of local government leaders.
Wazir accepted the request and expressed his readiness to host a meeting of the group in Cairo, according to Tanabe.
The governor also said that he hopes to build a peace park in Cairo through cooperation between Egypt and Japan, Tanabe said.
During the meeting, Tanabe showed pictures and a documentary film he made using computer graphics that recreates scenes from the city of Hiroshima before it was bombed.
''I lost all my family members'' in the bombing, Tanabe told Wazir.
Tanabe will speak about the tragedy that befell Hiroshima at a Japanese film festival focusing on the atomic bombing, which starts Thursday in Cairo.
Hiroshima was the epicenter of the first atomic bombing in 1945 in which an estimated 140,000 people lost their lives.
(Distributed by Kyodo News on Oct. 21, 2010)
